A conniving theater producer stole thousands of dollars from investors for a bogus Broadway show he claimed would star Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, authorities said.

Roland Scahill, 41, was arrested Friday and hauled into Manhattan Supreme Court for allegedly duping seven people into handing over $165,000 to fund the play “The KB Project” about the life of opera singer Kathleen Battle.

The one-woman show about the day Battle was fired by the Metropolitan Opera was supposed to feature Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for the 2013 movie “12 Years a Slave,” prosecutor William Furber wrote in court papers.

The Cornell grad claimed that he had the rights to tell the singer’s story at the Booth Theatre and that Netflix would stream it, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

But it was all a hoax, prosecutors said. None of the parties had even heard of Scahill’s project.

Scahill allegedly told investors, many of them close friends, that he was the lead producer of the show during the three-month scam that began in October 2014.

Scahill, who owns a production company called RMS2, claimed that Nyong’o would announce at the Tony Awards that she was starring in the play, but the scam unraveled when Nyong’o signed on to the Broadway show “Eclipsed,” court papers show.

Sensing that Scahill sold them pure fiction, several investors demanded their money back in the fall of 2015, and Scahill allegedly sent each of them a bad check — then went out of touch, according to the DA’s office.

Scahill had already spent the illicit funds, prosecutors said.

Defense lawyer James DeVita said that Scahill now works for ABC News as a research assistant, making $123,000 a year, and lives with his mom.

“Mr. Scahill has pled not guilty,” the attorney said. “He is therefore entitled to the ­presumption of innocence.”

Justice Charles Solomon set bail at $100,000 cash. Scahill faces up to 15 years in prison.